Tips

– Regular Damage. Good for unarmored targets (100% damage), but totally useless for armored (0%). This type of damage is common among pistols (5 of 15).

– Energy Damage. Good for unarmored targets (100% damage) and useful for armored (50%). This type of damage is also common for pistols (7 of 15).

– Incendiary Damage. Excellent for unarmored targets (130% damage), but totally useless for armored (0%). This type of damage have only two Dragon pistols. No need to waste Skill Points on improvement of its first version, because by the time the Dragon-1 appears, everywhere are a lot of armored enemies, against which it is useless.

– Acid Damage. Good for unarmored targets (100% damage) and just brilliant for armored (130%). This type of damage also has only one pistol (Acid). The most versatile and definitely “must have pistol” at the first part of the game! However, almost the very slow fire-rate of all.

Pistols Speed, Upgrade and Dismantle Summary Table

Name

Speed of

Step of upgrading

Total Upgrade Cost (time)

Max Dismantle Reward

Fire*

Reloading

Damage

Magazine

Critical

Shocker

1.75

2 sec

– n/a –

– n/a –

– n/a –

– n/a –

Can’t dismantle

Stormbreaker

1.85

2 sec

2

1

2

3000, 135, 6000 (0:27:00)

300

Megathrone

1.5

2 sec

3

2

2

3750, 165, 7250 (1:18:00)

600

Bulldog

1.78

2 sec

4

2

2

4875, 195, 9750 (2:35:00) or 399

300

Acid

1.6

4 sec

4

2

3

3750, 165, 7500 (1:18:00)

600

M3 SMG

2.85

3 sec

4

2

2

5625, 210, 11250 (4:18:00)

900

Cobra

1.78

2 sec

7

2

2

5625, 225, 11250 (4:15:00)

300

Dragon

1.78

3 sec

7

2

2

9750, 240, 4875 (3:42:00)

600

Adam Cruise’s Magnum

1.57

3 sec

10

1

4

7125, 255, 14250 (9:18:00)

900

Pegasus

1.78

2 sec

15

2

2

7125, 270, 14250 (8:42:00)

300

UFO

1.67

3 sec

21

1

3

6375, 300, 12750 (22:30:00)

600

M5 SMG

2.85

3 sec

18

2

2

7875, 285, 15750 (11:12:00)

900

Dominion Pistol

1.6

2 sec

31

2

2

11250, 285, 14250 (13:05:00)

600

Dragon-2

37

2

2

5750, 2875, 315, 6375 (13:45:00)

600

Kurbatov’s Pistol

37

2

2

8625, 315, 17250 (13:42:00) or 2640

900

* Speed of fire (fire rate) – number of shots per second (more is better)

Damage per Second Table for Pistols

Name

DPS

Improvement %

Shocker

14.00

—

Stormbreaker

34.56

59.49

Megathrone

43.75

21.00

Bulldog

69.89

37.40

Acid

54.86

-27.40

M3 SMG

111.80

50.93

Cobra

132.50

15.62

Dragon

121.45

-9.10

Adam Cruise’s Magnum

131.92

7.97

Pegasus

272.28

51.55

UFO

289.27

5.88

M5 SMG

449.21

35.60

Dominion Pistol

506.67

11.34

Dragon-2

N/A yet

N/A yet

Kurbatov’s Pistol

N/A yet

N/A yet

Notes:

The DPS also known as Damage per Second (and not Damage per Shot) formula credits are entirely for ScaryCherry.

The DPS value takes into account the Reload Time.

The Improvement value is just a straight calculation that compares damage from previous and next pistols.

All the calculations are not taking into account any researching from Reconnaissance Center, Critical Shot update or additional damage from acid or incendiary post-effect.

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40 Responses to Pistols

Can someone explain exactly how the acid and incendiary damage types work? I fully upgraded the Dragon-2 pistol and it seems to do around the same max damage as the fully upgraded Kurbatov’s Pistol against unarmored targets. However it seems to apply a damage over time effect that ramps up and does more each tick, with each additional shot? I am guessing the bonus damage has no effect on aimed shots though?

Yes, single shot damage is equal to regular pistols, but over time, you’ll see some (red) health points coming out from enemy… Those ones are the incendiary damage which is up to 130% for unarmored targets. However. aimed shots only relies on the Enhanced Optics level you have, Vulnerabilities research for each enemy at the Recon Center (and I can’t remember any more feature that aimed shots relies on)! Acid damage is the same but it only deals 100% to unarmored targets. However, it can deal 130% for armored targets. If you click in your profile button, in the game (2nd button from the left, next to Menu button) and then, again, 2nd button (Reference table) you can see info on each type of damage you can find in the game’s weapons.

And yes, Dragon 2 max damage will be the same (for the same conditions) as Kurbatov’s as you can see at the table above which says 268/453. Dragon inflicts Incendiary damage and Kurbatov’s inflicts Energy damage!

That’s right. I can add that damage bonus is not +30%, it varies between +5% (at first shot) and encreases to +30% at next shots. If you wait or change a target, you can see how additional damage decreases to zero.

So, Гудвин is right: the Dominion pistol is better; but not that much (12,8%).

Note though that I don’t know the reload sliders and thus how much reloading can be speed up by manual triggering. If reload time can be reduced to 1s for both pistols, numbers are 561,27 and 552,73 respectively – making the M5 SMG equally strong as the Dominion.However, Dominion‘s aimed shot should deal way more damage.

So I guess for those guys that do the secondary story-line fully, getting the M5 SMG is quite worth it (given that the UFO pistol only does 289,3 DPS and Pegasus 272,3DPS).

That’s more correct. I can add that with bonuses (reload, attack, reconaissance) the difference will increase.
And one more thing: may be it was the fix in update, now Dominion has much faster fire rate then UFO. So, the information in the table is not exactly correct.

ScaryCherry, what’s your formula? Looking at your calculations your units don’t work out.
(shots/mag)*(damage/shot) –> damage per magazine.
If you divide this by shots/second (i.e. multiply by 1/1/second) you move seconds to the numerator.
How did you get from 4500 to 10,175 for the M5 for example?
Maybe I’m not understanding your reasoning.. can you write out the entire formula?
Thanks

I think that someone already said the the only truly worthy buy in the game is the Kurbatov’s Pistol! If it is true or not I don’t know but I would buy it for sure! I will buy it when I have the chance!

Acid cannon is better then Dominion MG for most situations (exept PVP defence). Some bosses (Hehemon and Hand Of Xi) need yo use the MG, but you can use Moloh MG on them (they are not armored).
And the best partner is Hank (he has more HP and the same damage, comparing with terminator).

kurbatov’s pistol is the best , i know that… what i want to really know is in the later stages, in the dominion territory, how much do you use the pistol?? i mean, kurbatovs p is not that much stronger than dominion p to cause massive damage to arachnids, hounds or dominators… so how much do we have to use the pistol in actual battles(except aim shots)?? even in the video walkthrough given, the person shifts to the secondary weapon as soon as the battle starts…and uses it till the end…

I use the pistol at 95% of the battles time. The secondary weapon is only when the enemy comes towards you or when you know that the pistol simply is not enough. But this situation doesn’t happen very often. The pistol is the most used weapon! You should upgrade each pistol you research to it’s maximum as you’ll use it a lot and it has free ammo! So, it is always a must have asset!

Is the Dragon-2 worth constructing with the Dominion pistol around the corner. I mean as most enemies are armoured anyway it wont probably be of much use. I don’t even have G2-inc grenades so I have to pay a higher research price – not such a big deal though. Where do you get those G2 incendiaries, by the way.

I love the Dragon 2 pistol, it is well worth researching and upgrading. It is especially good in the early stages of the Dominion as the majority of enemies are not armored! I now have Kerbatov’s pistol fully upgraded, but use the Dragon 2 most of the time especially with the random missions, because again, most of the enemies are not armored. The Dragon 2 is also as good as Kerbatov’s on an aimed shot, even against armored enemies. For armored enemies I either use Kerbatov’s or if there is only one or two armored I’ll use the Dragon 2 with the Acid Cannon and use the Acid on the armored and Dragon 2 on unarmored.

Hey guys. I just want to know, the req for dragon 2 is to research the dragon first right? What if I dismantled the first dragon pistol? Will I still get the dragon 2 as reward after reclaiming any mines captured by the viper and executioner? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

The above numbers take into account the damage per bullet, then it multiplies with magazine size and with average critical to compute the whole damage done by a full mag.
then it divides this by the time it takes a full mag to be shot – the magazine size multiplied with time a bullet takes to be shot – plus the time the mag needs to be reloaded.

beyond the above numbers, one should also take advantage of the fast reload and bonus reload areas. The fast reload allows u to finish the reload immediately and the bonus reload finishes the reload immediately and ads 20% damage to the whole clip.

Using those 2 types of reloads, one can improve the dps by lowering the reload time and by also increasing the damage of each bullet.

The values obtained after using the fast reload and bonus reload times are:

As u can see, M% smg has a 50% bigger dps if u manage to reload it with bonus, going to 600 dps. Dominium pistol is the best there (don’t have data for reload times on kurbatov’s), and it’s free

For free damage, the ufo still tops pegasus in damage, 10% bigger if u go with normal / bonus reload. I’d advice going with fast reload, just reload as soon possible, u’ll get almost the same dps as waiting for the bonus to be available. it will give 399 dps for fast instead of 406 for bonus. This way, u’ll benefit of a a good damage along with a decent 1.5 reload time.
As soon u can get the dominium, do it, no payment required and great bonus dps, 686.

if i have cobra pistol , then can i dismantle bulldog pistol for skill points ?
i know that after dismantle i can not get pistol back ….. so is it worth to dismantle or not
does it is used in any further in the game or not ?????????????????????????